How your community clips your streams
Follow one example campaign from funding to refund: what you decide, what your clippers do and what every dollar pays for.
- to approve a clip
- $0.00
- platform fee on top of your budget
- 8%
- until each clip’s final count
- 7 days
- of unused budget comes back
- 100%
At a glance
Step by step
You are Rion, and kai_cuts clips for you: the example follows one campaign from funding to refund.
1Set up
Bring your community together
Create a home for your community and share its link with the people who will turn your videos into clips.
These members are your clippers: they edit short videos and publish them on their own channels.
Meanwhile, your clippersClippers join through your link or find your community in the directory.
Rion Plays1,284 membersJoinCommunity link/c/rion_plays2Set up
Choose the material and the terms
Create a campaign with your source video, a clear brief and the amount you pay per thousand views.
This rate is called CPM; you also choose the platforms and can limit each clipper’s total earnings.
Meanwhile, your clippersClippers read your brief, rate and remaining budget before they cut.
Source streamBest reactions from Friday’s streamCampaign requirements
- Vertical, under 60 seconds
- One moment from this stream
- Rion Plays named in the caption
- Per 1,000 views
- $1.50
- Clipper cap
- $500.00
- Platforms
3Launch
Fund your campaign and launch it
Pay the budget plus fees, then launch the campaign so your community can submit clips.
The money is loaded before the work begins; funding and launching are two separate steps.
Meanwhile, your clippersA funded budget is what tells clippers their views will be paid.
Funding- Campaign budget
- $4,000.00
- Platform fee (8%)
- $320.00
- Payment processing allowance
- $145.43
- You pay
- $4,465.43
Open for clips4Launch
Review the clips
Approve or reject each clip against your campaign requirements.
Approving costs nothing: from then on, the clip claims budget once a day for the views it has actually delivered.
Meanwhile, your clippersClippers see your decision and, for a rejection, the reason you chose.
Submitted clipsRion Plays- kai_cutsMeets the campaign requirementsApproved
- reelrunnerMeets the campaign requirementsApproved
- cliphausMisses the campaign requirementsRejected
5Pay for results
See what the views earn
A clip starts earning at 2,000 views, with your CPM paid for each full thousand.
The final view check follows 7 days after submission, and payment cannot exceed the claim the clip has built.
Meanwhile, your clippersEach clipper watches their own claim grow, and nobody can take it by posting faster.
Campaign budget$4,000.00- Used so far
- $69.00
- Still available
- $3,931.00
- Counted views, kai_cuts
- 46,280
- Earned by kai_cuts
- $69.00
6Pay for results
Close the campaign, get the rest back
Close the campaign when you are done; approved clips finish their holding windows before the remaining budget is refunded automatically.
The matching share of your platform fee comes back too, while payment processing costs remain.
Meanwhile, your clippersApproved clips finish their holding window and get paid before anything is refunded.
Rion PlaysCampaign settled- Campaign budget
- $4,000.00
- Paid to approved clips
- −$3,240.00
- Unused budget
- $760.00
- Returned share of platform fee
- $60.80
- Returned to you
- $820.80
Payment processing costs are not refunded.
Where your money is
For the example campaign, from your payment to the refund.
- Before launchYou fundYou pay $4,465.43, and $4,000.00 becomes the campaign’s budget.
- LaunchOpen for clipsYour community can submit from now on.
- Every dayApproved clips claim budgetOnly for views delivered since submission, and approving costs nothing.
- 7 days after each submissionEach clip settlesIts final count is paid from the budget, up to the claim it built.
- When you are doneYou closeNew clips stop, and approved clips finish their holding window.
- After the last windowRefund$820.80 comes back automatically in the example, fee share included.
Review promptly: a clip reviewed late also starts claiming budget late.
What your money pays for
The example campaign with a $4,000.00 budget, worked through with the rules the product charges by.
Funding
- Campaign budget
- $4,000.00
- Platform fee (8%)
- $320.00
- Payment processing allowance
- $145.43
- You pay
- $4,465.43
If processing costs less, the difference increases your campaign budget.
One clip by kai_cuts
- New views since submission
- 46,280
- 46 full thousands × $1.50
- $69.00
Your budget pays $69.00; the 6% payout fee is deducted from what kai_cuts receives, not added on top.
| Campaign budget | $1.00 per 1,000 | $1.50 per 1,000 | $2.00 per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500.00 | 500,000 | 333,333 | 250,000 |
| $1,000.00 | 1,000,000 | 666,666 | 500,000 |
| $4,000.00 | 4,000,000 | 2,666,666 | 2,000,000 |
The 8% platform fee and payment processing come on top of the budget, not out of it.
What protects your budget
The rules that decide what a campaign can cost you.
Verified views only
Your budget pays only for views that approved clips delivered after they were submitted.
Approving costs nothing
An approved clip claims budget each day for the views it actually delivers, never a lump sum up front.
Your requirements decide
You review every clip against your own campaign requirements and reject what misses them.
A cap per clipper
An optional clipper cap limits what one clipper can earn in the campaign.
Fake views come back out
If a platform removes fake views, the clip’s claim falls again and frees budget.
The rest comes back
Unused budget and its share of the platform fee are refunded automatically after the last clip settles.
What if…
Short answers for the cases the example does not show.
What does rejecting a clip cost?
Nothing, because a rejected clip never claims budget, and the clipper sees the reason you picked.
What if the budget runs out?
At zero available budget, new submissions stop until you top up; when the remaining budget cannot cover a daily allocation, the available amount is shared proportionally.
How is the budget allocated?
Approved clips claim budget daily for delivered views, and posting faster cannot take away another clip’s claim; corrected view counts can reduce claims and free budget again.
Which views earn money?
An approved clip earns from 2,000 new views since submission, including all of that growth, at the campaign’s CPM for each full thousand; a clip below the threshold earns nothing.
Can I stop a campaign early?
Yes, closing stops new clips at once, approved clips finish their holding window, and the rest of the budget comes back automatically.
When is the amount final?
At settlement, verified view growth since submission is paid at the campaign’s CPM, up to the claim the clip already built, before the payout fee is deducted.
What comes back when the campaign ends?
After approved clips settle, unused budget and its proportional share of your platform fee are refunded automatically; payment processing costs are not refunded.
Glossary
Every term the app uses, each in one sentence.
Joining & campaigns
End date
The last day a campaign accepts clips, optionally set by the creator and only ever moved later once funded, while clips handed in before it are still reviewed and paid.
Requirements
What the creator asks of a clip in this campaign, written in the brief and the only thing a clip is judged against, so a clip that misses them is rejected.
Draft
The campaign is still being written: the terms can change and no money is loaded yet.
Funded
The budget is loaded as escrow and the terms are frozen, but nothing is live until you launch it.
Active
The campaign is live: clips can be handed in, and once a day the budget is claimed by the reach the approved clips have actually delivered.
Closed
Intake has stopped, waiting clips are declined on a manual close but reviewed after an end date, and every clip already approved still runs to the end of its holding window and is paid before the rest of the budget is refunded.
Settled
Every approved clip has been paid and the unspent budget has been refunded, so the campaign is finished.
Views & earnings
CPM
The rate paid per 1,000 verified views, counted once a clip’s holding window has passed.
Clipper cap
The most one clipper can earn in this campaign across all their clips, set by the creator in dollars and unlimited when the field is left empty.
Holding window
At the end of the window, seven days from submission, the first measurement determines the view growth since submission that can be paid.
Consumed budget
What your campaign has used so far: money already paid out plus what the views your clips delivered are worth at your CPM, a figure that grows daily and falls again when a platform strips views out.
Available budget
Your funded budget minus what the campaign has consumed, and at zero it reads “budget used up” and takes no new submissions until you top up.
Verified views
Verified views are the view growth since submission on approved clips, never negative or capped; this ranks clippers on the leaderboard. Clips submitted before the change retain their previous calculation.
Money & payouts
Platform fee
What ClipRails charges you for a campaign: 8% of the budget you fund, shown before you pay, and refunded in proportion to whatever budget your campaign does not spend.